How old were you when....?

[Mugwump]

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[LizStreithorst]

I was 24.  I was in one of those "best of worlds worst of worlds" periods in my life.  It showed up when I most needed it.

[Rjb3]

21

[waterboy]

35

[wallace]

High school senior. I watched the early shows every week.

[Mugwump]

I was 30...

[wsantia1]

I was all of 21. lol

[Mugwump]

I was all of 21. lol

I got my draft notice on my 21st birthday along with the b-day cards......

[wsantia1]

I was all of 21. lol

I got my draft notice on my 21st birthday along with the b-day cards......

I was already a Vet by the time I was 21. I enlisted as soon as I turned 17 to get away from home.

[BallAquatics]

18  By then Nixon had stopped the war and there wasn't any draft.  I wasn't even required to register.....

Dennis

[Mugwump]

18  By then Nixon had stopped the war and there wasn't any draft.  I wasn't even required to register.....

Dennis

[Ron Sower]

28

[waterboy]

I was all of 21. lol

I got my draft notice on my 21st birthday along with the b-day cards......

I was already a Vet by the time I was 21. I enlisted as soon as I turned 17 to get away from home.

In my senior year in High School I signed up to go in the Air Force.  Graduated in June, sat around until August and no Air Force.  One Day a Marine recruiter came to the house and said "you can go tomorrow if you want".  Two days later I was in boot camp in San Diego.  Too late for Korea, too early for Vietnam so I had a pretty peaceful time of it.

[Mugwump]

I was all of 21. lol

I got my draft notice on my 21st birthday along with the b-day cards......

I was already a Vet by the time I was 21. I enlisted as soon as I turned 17 to get away from home.

In my senior year in High School I signed up to go in the Air Force.  Graduated in June, sat around until August and no Air Force.  One Day a Marine recruiter came to the house and said "you can go tomorrow if you want".  Two days later I was in boot camp in San Diego.  Too late for Korea, too early for Vietnam so I had a pretty peaceful time of it.

[wallace]

I never had to register for the draft either. There were just two years there, I think it was '76 and '77, that had no draft for 18-year olds. Then draft registration was reinstated.

I did a bunch of genealogy and discovered that all the men on both sides of my family were at an age between wars. I had to go all the way back to the American revolution to find ancestors involved in a war. And they fought on the wrong side, lol. They were Americans but loyalists. After the revolution the US booted the loyalists out and made them go to Canada.